There’s one thing this has taught me: You can’t enslave a free man. Only person can do that to a man is himself. No, sir—you can’t enslave a free man… - Robert A. Heinlein

A slave cannot be freed, save he do it himself. Nor can you enslave a free man; the very most you can do is kill him!

Man has no moral instinct. He is not born with moral sense. You were not born with it, I was not - and a puppy has none. We acquire moral sense, when we do, through training, experience, and hard sweat of the mind.

Nor would anybody suspect. If was one thing all people took for granted, was conviction that if you feed honest figures into a computer, honest figures come out. Never doubted it myself till I met a computer with a sense of humor.

I think perhaps of all the things a police state can do to its citizens, distorting history is possibly the most pernicious.